danieldon

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by danieldon 16y ago
I think any OS will deteriorate over time with use. Why?
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by danieldon 16y ago
As an engineer, I don't think preserving URLs is a minor issue.
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by danieldon 16y ago
Partitioning an already heavily used disk for bootcamp is probably the closest any relatively normal user would ever get to needing to degrag an OS X volume. And pretty much the only time a normal user would ever need to reinstall OS X is i
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by danieldon 16y ago
Two sites that I've put up in the past 6 months have yet to be crawled by bing (it indexed the main page of one, but has absolutely nothing for the second), despite it indexing links pointing to those sites and me submitting them to be inde
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by danieldon 16y ago
Sports participation is linked to aggression (for example, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118735417/abstrac... and http://hk.humankinetics.com/jsep/viewarticle.cfm?aid=8936 )
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by danieldon 16y ago
Obsolete is a verb, but it is a poor choice. A better choice would be obsolesce, as in: "LESS.js will obsolesce CSS" "Obsolete" is the correct word because it's a transitive verb (eg, [subject] obsoletes [object]), while obsole
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by danieldon 16y ago
OED has it as a transitive verb, with usage going back to 1640.
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by danieldon 16y ago
I've been frustrated with Issues recently because it's incredibly difficult to find issues that show up in google results. When I search for errors and get a hit from github Issues, the link never goes to the issue itself. As far as I can t
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by danieldon 16y ago
There's a class of people who just don't get that this is an issue. You can see it in the comments here. These model numbers are an opaque code that needs to be deciphered. Just because you happen to have learned how to decipher them doesn'
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by danieldon 16y ago
Great. I'll reiterate that I recommend highlighting gemcutter. qrush and the contributors have done an excellent job with it, it contains examples of how to approach a variety of tasks (even has examples of using metal, middleware and embed
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by danieldon 16y ago
There are only a handful of active lovd by less forks and none of them have apparently removed the pervasive, unnecessary monkey patching. If you don't know what I'm referring to, start reading the code, notice that there are a bunch of wei
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by danieldon 16y ago
I don't agree with this list. Spot.us, for instance, has completely non-standard controller code that goes against widely accepted conventions. I also haven't looked at lovd by less in a while, but last I checked they relied on widespread m
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by danieldon 16y ago
Split windows.
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by danieldon 16y ago
There are some issues with Textmate. One of the most glaring and commonly cited is the absence of split windows. What's really unfortunate is that the handful of features that the majority of people are really itching for don't require the
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by danieldon 16y ago
You still could easily find you need to, even with IE 8. Sure, simple box positioning is easier and most of the stock jQuery UI library works fine, but it's precisely when you try to do anything moderately fancy that IE can quickly because
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by danieldon 16y ago
Exactly, you don't know unless you ask. Don't assume, ask.
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by danieldon 16y ago
The most obvious problem is that the "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" clause in the guidelines is too broad and, therefore, impossible for certain people to internalize. That's why there are even long-time users who somehow believe
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by danieldon 16y ago
Wait, does it even still exist? This post is from spring 2009, back around when Obie Fernandez first came up with this nonsense, and I haven't even thought or heard about it in at least half a year. I do remember Obie apologizing for it aft
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by danieldon 16y ago
True. torbutton does a lot of that, however, so if you enable it and completely disable javascript you can get your browser uniqueness down to about 1 in 1500
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by danieldon 16y ago
The lawsuit might be unusual, but it's not unusual for Microsoft to try to get companies to pay licensing for trivial patents in its portfolio. They've been engaged in aggressively pursuing licensing deals around their patents for a number
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by danieldon 16y ago
I sincerely hope with #1 you are comparing Chrome to Safari and not Firefox.
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by danieldon 16y ago
Seems to be working just fine for webkit already.
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by danieldon 16y ago
As gjm11 noted, the font software is copyrighted (as I understand it), the actual glyph design is what can't be copyrighted. If you are still distributing a portion of the copyrighted work (the font software), that would presumably be a cop
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by danieldon 16y ago
I said "either." It's completely plausible that their prioritization process is disfunctional. What's your explanation for why IE is consistently out of sync with the rest of the browser landscape?
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by danieldon 16y ago
"On what basis do you make this judgement?" Because for the vast majority of web development, having browsers with similar performance to other browsers while supporting the same standards is vastly more preferable than having one widely-
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by danieldon 16y ago
"IE9 Trident is going to be better than WebKit (e.g. hardware acceleration)" You must be joking. It's great that they have finally decided to add SVG support, but bragging about SVG "hardware acceleration" when they won't even commit to
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by danieldon 16y ago
I can't believe it's nearly as common as it was 5 years ago. It's anecdotal, but all of the big IE-only industry-specific web apps I've had contact with have been rebuilt. There certainly are some in the wild, but Microsoft doesn't need to
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by danieldon 16y ago
It would do a huge service to the web if you can get the blessing of foundries for a method that can be used by anyone for displaying licensed fonts using @font-face. Even creating derivatives of fonts is often restricted, eg, the Adobe Fon
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by danieldon 16y ago
_why left open source, and there's no evidence he "distrusts the Ruby community." His last tweets waxed philosophically about software progress in general and there's a suggestion in the poignant guide that he had considered dropping his pe
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by danieldon 16y ago
identica has some serious design and ux issues. I don't think it's safe to use it as a benchmark.

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